Bug 21722

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 10/3/00, 9:23:28 AM, mwm@mired.org wrote regarding conf/21722: The
mixer settings are lost on sysetm reboot.s:


> >Number:         21722
> >Category:       conf
> >Synopsis:       The mixer settings are lost on sysetm reboot.s
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       non-critical
> >Priority:       medium
> >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
> >State:          open
> >Quarter:
> >Keywords:
> >Date-Required:
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 03 01:30:00 PDT 2000
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Mike Meyer
> >Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
> >Organization:
> Meyer Consulting
> >Environment:

>       A system with at least one sound card.

> >Description:

>       The system mixer settings - possibly carefully tuned by the user=

-
>       are lost whenever the system goes through a hard shutdown.

> >How-To-Repeat:

>       Reboot your system so that the mixer settings are at the default=

>       values. Find a line input source that's not acceptable at those
>       values, and adjust the mixer settings. Now reboot again, and
notice
>       that the values you had saved were gone.

> >Fix:

> The following patch (apply in /etc) adds an rc.conf knob to save the
> mixer settings in /var/db on shutdown, and restore from those files on=

> restart.

> And I forgot to test the "mixer numbers" case, but shutting down now
> to do it would lose the PR entry, so...

> --- rc        Tue Oct  3 03:14:55 2000
> +++ /etc/rc   Tue Oct  3 03:10:50 2000
> @@ -276,6 +276,19 @@
>       ;;
>  esac

> +#
> +# If we have saved mixer state and the user wants it restored, do it.=

> +#
> +case ${mixer_devices} in
> +[Nn][Oo] | '')
> +     ;;
> +*)
> +     for settings in /var/db/mixer*.settings; do
> +             mixer -f `echo $settings | sed -e 's/.settings//' -e
's;/var/db;/dev;'` `cat $settings` >/dev/null
> +     done
> +     ;;
> +esac
> +
>  # Remove X lock files, since they will prevent you from restarting
X11
>  # after a system crash.
>  #
> --- rc.shutdown       Tue Oct  3 03:14:55 2000
> +++ /etc/rc.shutdown  Tue Oct  3 03:09:30 2000
> @@ -43,6 +43,25 @@
>       ;;
>  esac

> +# Save the mixer settings - if the user wants it.
> +#
> +case ${mixer_devices} in
> +[Nn][Oo] | '')
> +     ;;
> +[Yy][Ee][Ss])
> +     echo "Saving mixer settings."
> +     rm /var/db/mixer*.settings
> +     /usr/sbin/mixer -s > /var/db/mixer.settings
> +     ;;
> +*)
> +     echo "Saving mixer settings."
> +     rm /var/db/mixer*.settings
> +     for dev in ${mixer_devices}; do
> +             /usr/sbin/mixer -f /dev/mixer${dev} -s >
/var/db/mixer${dev}.settings
> +     done
> +     ;;
> +esac
> +
>  # Check if /var/db/mounttab is clean.
>  case $1 in
>  reboot)
> --- defaults/rc.conf  Fri Sep  1 08:37:25 2000
> +++ /etc/defaults/rc.conf     Tue Oct  3 02:31:22 2000
> @@ -298,6 +298,7 @@
>  start_vinum=3D""               # set to YES to start vinum
>  entropy_file=3D"/var/db/entropy"
>                       # Set to NO to disable caching entropy through
reboots
> +mixer_devices=3D"NO"   # NO to disable saving, YES for /dev/mixer, or=

list of mixer numbers

>  ##############################################################
>  ### Define source_rc_confs, the mechanism used by /etc/rc.* ##



Dear Mike Meyer,

Under -STABLE, I had solved this "problem" at a user level as follows:


<blockquote>

#
# $FreeBSD: src/share/skel/dot.login,v 1.11.2.2 1999/12/13 05:47:28
# dcs Exp $
#
# .login - csh login script, read by login shell,
#          after `.cshrc' at login.
#
# see also csh(1), environ(7).
#

<other user settings snipped>

# Cdcontrol-related stuff
setenv MUSIC_CD /dev/acd0c
mixer dev vol 100 100 > /dev/null
mixer dev igain 75 75 > /dev/null
mixer dev ogain 75 75 > /dev/null
mixer dev pcm 33 33 > /dev/null
mixer dev cd 100 100 > /dev/null
mixer dev mic 0 0 > /dev/null
mixer dev speaker 0 0 > /dev/null
mixer dev line 0 0 > /dev/null
mixer dev bass 90 90 > /dev/null
mixer dev treble 90 90 > /dev/null
mixer dev synth  90 90 > /dev/null

# I determined the above settings by trial and error.
# Your mileage may vary.

</blockquote>


Whether I use cdcontrol (when working in CUI/CLI), or KDE cdplayer
(when working in GUI), the settings are preserved.

There is more than one way to do it(tm) :-)

Best regards,
Salvo

Comment 2 dwmalone 2002-02-17 10:41:54 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

PR/35028 contains a port addressing this issue.